Eric Alterman, Michael Stipe, and Arianna Huffington walk into a bar...
On Wednesday night, Gawker publisher Nick Denton decided to be a little less selfish than usual and threw a soiree in honor of Arianna Huffington. The Huffington Post founder was in town to distribute air-kisses and feta cheese, which is as good of an excuse as any to fill Denton's loft with 500 billion of our closest frenemies. After the jump, media clusterfucking and chaos courtesy of staff pornographer Nikola Tamindzic.

The Times's Nick Confessore thinks you'd be pretty hot if you were just 10 pounds lighter.

Topic playboy David Haskell is crying on the inside.

Gawker publisher Nick Denton forces the crowd to listen to his accent. After this photo was taken, Arianna Huffington pushed him off of his pedestal and made some anal sex jokes. You guess who was more popular.

New York's go-to chronicler of teen trends, the brooding David Amsden, leers at a girl who, if he's lucky, is underage.

Arianna Huffington explains to Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen that Manolos really are worth the money. Shortly thereafter, Coen used her own $20 Payless heels to attack Huffington and steal her overpriced stilettos, which ended up being 4 sizes too big.

Kate Lee is an agent. She represents bloggers, including Elizabeth Spiers. Elizabeth Spiers was the founding editor of Gawker.